Culture Quotes by Jawaharlal Nehru

“Without that passion and urge, there is a gradual oozing out of hope and vitality, a settling down on lower levels of existence, a…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Great causes and little men go ill together.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Success comes to those who dare and act; it seldom goes to the timid.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Time is not measured by the passing of yaers but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

— Jawaharlal Nehru